Events/Seminars at the Center for Human Cell Therapy:
October 3, 2007
3rd Annual CHCT Symposium and Reception
“From Stem Cells to Motor Neurons: Novel Approaches to Treating Motor
Neuron Disease and Spinal Injury”
Date: October 3, 2007
Time: 3:00-4:30pm, Reception to Follow
Where: The New Research Building in the Amphitheater at
77 Avenue Louis Pasteur, Boston MA, 02115
Guest Speakers:
"Building or Repairing a Brain is Complex; Assembly Instructions Required: Molecular Development and Repair of Corticospinal Motor Neuron Circuitry."
Jeffrey Macklis
Professor, Neurology, Neuroscience, and Neurosurgery, HMS
Professor, Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology, Harvard University
Program Head, Neuroscience/Nervous System Diseases, Harvard Stem Cell Institute
Director, MGH-HMS Center for Nervous System Repair
Massachusetts General Hospital-Harvard Medical School
"Stem Cells and Spinal Cord Disorders"
Douglas Kerr, M.D., Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Neurology, Molecular Microbiology and Immunology
Director of the Johns Hopkins Transverse Myelitis Center
The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Department of Neurology
The Johns Hopkins University
"Interrogating Disease with Nuclear Transfer and Embryonic Stem Cells"
Kevin Eggan, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology
Assistant Investigator of the Stowers Medical Institute
Principal Investigator of the Harvard Stem Cell Institute
Harvard University
September 26, 2006
2nd Annual CHCT Symposium and Reception
“Mesenchymal Cell Applications: Tissue Engineering & Tissue Repair”
Date: September 26, 2006
Time: 3:00-4:30pm, Reception to Follow
Where: The New Research Building in the Amphitheater at
77 Avenue Louis Pasteur, Boston MA, 02115
Guest Speakers:
"Use of Cardiac Stem Cells for Cardiac Repair in Acute and Chronic Myocardial Infarction."
Roberto Bolli, M.D.
Professor of Medicine, Physiology & Biophysics
Director, Institute of Molecular Cardiology
Chief, Division of Cardiology
Distinguished Chair in Cardiology
University of Louisville
"Multipotential Stromal Cells: Their Ability to Repair Injured Tissues."
Darwin Prockop, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor of Biochemistry
Director, Center for Gene Therapy
Tulane University Health Sciences Center
"Amniotic Fluid-Derived Mesenchymal Cells in Tissue Engineering"
Dario Fauza, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Surgery
Children’s Hospital Boston
Harvard Medical School
November 2, 2005
Guest Seminar
Tao Cheng, M.D.
Associate Professor of Radiation Oncology
Director of Stem Cell Biology
University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute
October 7, 2005
1st Annual CHCT Symposium and Reception
"Rebuilding Immunity after High Dose Chemotherapy: Lessons from
Myeloma"
Dr. Carl June, M.D.
Director, Translational Research Programs
Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
University of Pennsylvania Health System
"Role of Cytomics in Cell Therapy"
Jonni Moore, Ph.D.
Director, Abramson Cancer Center Flow Cytometry and Cell Sorting
Shared Resource
Associate Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
University of Pennsylvania Health System
"Immunotherapy with Antigen Specific CTLs"
Helen Heslop, M.D., Ph.D.
Director, Adult Stem Cell Transplant Program Center for Cell and Gene
Therapy
Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics
Baylor College of Medicine
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